Adam Ang
The hackers' IP were traced back to a blacklisted IP in Hong Kong.
The incident did not cause any disruption to its health services.
Among things, it recommended systemic logging and monitoring across Te Whatu Ora's data estate.
It does this by leveraging an AI tool that reads patients' histories and doctors' notes in real time.
Heavily strained hospitals have become an easy target for cybercriminals.
Meanwhile, it was recently revealed that about 150,000 stolen patient records from a hospital in Tamil Nadu were being illegally sold online.
However, it will still take some time before its digital services can get back up and running.
This is despite their increasing telehealth usage over the past year.
Around 40 million patients might have been exposed.
Many healthcare organisations in the region have been underutilising volumes of data due to interoperability issues.